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See also (the confusingly named) playwright-cli

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

Different from the cli used for running tests etc that comes bundled with PlayWright

Sample use:

  playwright-cli open https://demo.playwright.dev/todomvc/ --headed
  playwright-cli type "Buy groceries"
  playwright-cli press Enter
  playwright-cli type "Water flowers"
  playwright-cli press Enter
  playwright-cli check e21
  playwright-cli check e35
  playwright-cli screenshot
Re:UN report finds UN reports are not widely read on Monday August 04, 2025 @08:03AM (#44784683)
r/nottheonion
Re:Million Times Million on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:49AM (#44511531)
Re:Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation on Sunday June 29, 2025 @03:00PM (#44415434)
This is amazing!

I wonder if OpenAI Structured Output [1] could be leveraged to constrain generation to required JSON Schema (and then convert to XML later)...

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs

Re:Beautiful, Boring, and Without Soul on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:27PM (#43108561)
> What could be more important in life than how you make people feel?

Food, water, shelter, survival, comfort, security.

Is this a joke?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read? on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:34PM (#41177041)
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself - Michael Singer

It had such a deep impact on me that I ended up using it as a "holy" book to take my oath of Canadian citizenship.

In case you were wondering, it supposedly stands for Good Luck Have Fun.

It's in the title which is not immediately visible on mobile.

Not possible on H1B - moving right along...
I don't get it. Why is it called that?
Re:How HEAD works in Git on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:45PM (#39649009)
If you don't understand something simply, you don't understand it at all.

- Einstein (probably)

Git is waaaaaaay to complicated for my needs. I need a minimal subset of git that does (and only does) trunk based development.

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

Re:Rethinking Serverless with Flame on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:24AM (#38545983)
> FLAME - Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution

Reminds me of 12-factor app (https://12factor.net/) especially "VI. Processes" and "IX. Disposability"

Re:Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:18AM (#38545903)
GP may have been referring to Serverless Framework (http://serverless.com/)
> The British Library exceptionally holds four significant 15th-century manuscripts...

They misspelled the word "stole".

Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:18PM (#37038422)
Get all humans on earth to ponder deeply on the question "Who am I?" - not until they find an answer - but until the question disappears.

This is the end of misery.

> There are no daily fines for most library materials.

This seems new ^^^

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